It’s the little things

| December 19, 2008

Got a package in the mail this morning. Two, actually. It’s always so fun to get a package. One from my sister, one from my Grandma, both Christmas presents. Dilemma: do I open them? It’s so tempting! But the temptation eases when I see that Grandma has also included my Girl Scout cookies, which I [...]

Speaking of social networking

| December 19, 2008

I’ve decided to try out twittering. If you want to follow me, you can find me at http://twitter.com/stacylwhitman.

Further back in the not-so-way-back machine…

| December 19, 2008

This link is over a month old, and but Booksquare’s Kassia Krozser speaks directly to what we were discussing a couple weeks ago about reaching our readers through online efforts. Specifically, Kassia is talking about social networking vs. viral marketing. Our teen readers and their little siblings are as much naturals at the social networking thing [...]

Let’s talk about marketing your book online

| December 5, 2008

I was at an SCBWI conference a couple weeks ago at which they had a panel of newly published authors do a panel chat about how they got published, and the subject came up of websites and blogs. This is something that I’ve heard a lot of people talk about in the children’s book blogosphere, [...]